Alaska Snow Experiment for Applications of Scatterometry to Snow Remote Sensing
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Spaceborne wind scatterometers provide useful measurements of ocean surface winds and are important to climatological studies and operational weather forecasting.
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Owing to the size and extent of the Great Lakes and the variety of ice types features found there, the timely and objective qualities inherent in computer processing of satellite data make it well suited for monitoring and mapping ice cover.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory C-band polarimetric scatterometer was used to measure radar backscatter of Great Lakes ice during the 1997 Great Lakes winter experiments.
Computer analysis of ERS-1 and RADARSAT ScanSAR narrow images of Great Lakes ice cover using a supervised classification technique indicates that different ice types in the ice cover can be identified and mapped and that wind speed and direction can have a strong influence on the backscatter from open water.
The fully polarimetric EMISAR acquired C-band radar signatures of sea ice in the Greenland Sea during a campaign in March 1995. We present maps of polarimetric signatures over an area containing various kinds of ice and discuss the use of polarimetric SAR for identification of ice types and their geophysical characteristics.
Two experiments were carried out during the 1997 winter season across the Straits of Mackinac and Lake Superior. C-band radar backscatter signatures of various ice types and open water were measured.
It is necessary to know sea ice surface thermal states under cloud cover to evaluate cloud effects in the overall climatic feedback mechanisms in polar regions.